Where are my Favorite Places? This is a common question we have been asked by several users in the last few months as we launched myAOL which includes the new myAOL Favorites product. First of all, your "Favorite Places" are safe and sound and can be accessed by using the AOL desktop client. Secondly, myAOL Favorites bookmarks are equivalent to a "Favorite Place" in the AOL desktop client software but are currently not saved in the same place as "Favorite Places." Your myAOL Favorites are saved for access from the Web on any computer that you sign into myAOL from, while your "Favorite Places" are part of the AOL desktop client software and are accessible from any AOL desktop client that you sign into.
In the coming months we would like to allow you the ability to get the best of both worlds by adding features to allow you to access your myAOL Favorites Web bookmarks and "Favorite Places" seamlessly from myAOL.
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1. I have both AOL (I pay for it each month) and Comcast (for the high speed). Decided to cancel AOL - BUT I have NOT cancelled it yet! Friend made Comcast my home page and we had AOL transfer emails to Comcast - but they did not transfer my email address book. Now I cannot get the original AOL home page, can't get my favorite places, can't get my filing cabinet contents !!! Can't get my documents!Don't know what to do!!! When I click the AOL icon on the desktop it will not work. From Comcast I get the AOL free pages. I am paying for AOL.
Can someone please help this 60 year old lady!!! :)
Posted at 10:05AM on Oct 4th 2007 by Kathy
2. "First of all, your 'Favorite Places' are safe and sound and can be accessed by using the AOL desktop client."
What is the AOL desktop client, and how do I use it?
Posted at 9:42PM on Oct 6th 2007 by RodgersGAR
3. I think the desktop client is better,NetPicViewer.
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Posted at 5:27AM on Oct 17th 2007 by sixwindows
4. Kathy, AOL is free now *if* you have broadband access through a provider like Comcast. Call Member Services and tell them to stop billing you. You get to keep your AOL screen name, by the way.
My advice is to keep using AOL EMail. Your address is yours for free - forever. If you decide to leave Comcast, you'll lose that email address.
JS
Posted at 2:05PM on Oct 18th 2007 by repliqajim
5. How do I get to my AOL pictures? When I send drafts how do I access my contacts list in order to easily address the forwarded mail?
okay2bme
Posted at 10:24PM on Oct 23rd 2007 by Carolyn
6. I do not understand what I need to do, or how to get to the desktop client to see my old favorites. I had many favorite websites that I used frequently and still need to access, but none of the are in this new favorites. Please explain how to get the old favorites from this safe place you talk about.
Posted at 7:47PM on Oct 27th 2007 by roykism
7. Yeah, I just installed AOL DeskTop, and huh... wheres my favorites?
The funny thing is, all my favorites from IE are on my AOL favorites.
Now, someone has some splanning to do...
Tim
Posted at 5:18PM on Jan 26th 2008 by Tim
8. I want to get back to my older yahoo I had up until las t week...Need my favorites back....plus can see the smaller print....just switch me back,please
Posted at 10:28AM on Feb 18th 2008 by darby434
9. Why can not I access all my favirite places, like I used to get them when I clickied onit? It is stored by AOL, but is not released.
Thank you.
Posted at 7:15PM on Mar 28th 2008 by sidglo8313
10. How do I access my favorite places, like how through the aol desktop client?
Posted at 6:34PM on Apr 6th 2008 by annjessop
11. Where do I get the desk-top client. IN ORDER THAT I MAY access my favorites
Posted at 10:13AM on Apr 15th 2008 by WhitnerL
12. MY FAVORITE PLACES DISAPPEARED FROM THE BOX(CALLED MY FAVORITE PLACES).
HOW I CAN ACCESS TO THOSE SITES, I NEED HELP.
Posted at 12:48AM on Apr 22nd 2008 by KAAKHAN
13. Same problem here got hi speed, now got free aol, how do i get my favorites, What is AOL desktop client, and how do I get it and use it' to get my favorites back, please help, this sucks, why doesn't aol explain it, I gave them my good money many years!!!1
Posted at 8:31PM on Apr 26th 2008 by Carol
14. I turned on my computer today and cannot find my favorites Every time aol changes something, they mess up more things. Anyboby know how to access favorites on the revised aol desktop?
Posted at 2:17PM on May 11th 2008 by Charlie
15. when i go to my favorite places nothing is there and when i put some of my favorites back in they disappear once i log off and are not there when i relog on to the computer. please help me fix this problem. thank you.
Posted at 6:18PM on May 25th 2008 by barbara
16. I had to use the restore disk on my computer. How do I find my e-mail addresses and my favorites? Please answer. What is desktop client?
Posted at 12:19AM on Jun 7th 2008 by jrobinlady
17. The words are so small I strain my eyes trying to read this...just want to go back to verizon yahoo site...why did someone change me to this????
Posted at 6:50PM on Jun 14th 2008 by darby434
18. I had many contact's on my favorite places. I bought a New laptop & upgraded My aol version to 9.1 & now I have
lost my favorite places contact's. I have them on my computer in the basement which still runs XP W/sp2 but
I don't want to have to go downstairs to be able to use
MY FAVORITE PLACES.
I just want them back on my laptop which is running Vista. HELP! HELP! would be appreciated.
Posted at 12:31AM on Jun 16th 2008 by txbreed
19. Why can't I get to Favorite Places?
Posted at 8:28PM on Jun 16th 2008 by Nancy Mullis
20. I had my PC reformatted and I can't find my favorites
Posted at 9:07PM on Jun 16th 2008 by oljranch